Are you on a diet or change of lifestyle?

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  • icrushit
    icrushit Posts: 773 Member
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    Both. Right now I'm losing weight using dieting tools, but am currently nearing the end of my weight loss phase, and focussing on transitioning to lifestyle and maintenance habits.
  • christinazaia
    christinazaia Posts: 135 Member
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    iam here to change my life....to grow ...to live...to learn....to be happy.........I want to live a long healthy happy life...
    ....I have lost 83.8lbs .....im trying to lose another 61.2lbs....everyday of my life is a challenge, a struggle, but I choose to stay strong and stay motivated no matter how tough it gets....ive been on yo-yo diets...since I was a teen......now I changed the way I think and the way I feel about food /my habits have changed...traded the bad ones for good ones....now this is my life....I accept it being slow and steady.....iam slowly gaining confidence and iam much happier than I was before I started this journey...
  • snowflake930
    snowflake930 Posts: 2,188 Member
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    The statistics are staggeringly against us keeping the weight off, even if we manage to get to our weight loss goals.

    For me, that is why this has to be a lifestyle change. I absolutely will not go back to where I was 2-1/2 years ago. I will be logging and monitoring for as long as I am able to do so.
  • juliepcastro
    juliepcastro Posts: 1
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    I am doing this for a lifestyle change and accountability. My BMI is fine etc. but I think it is very important to track my exercise as well as what I eat, supplements etc. It has been very helpful and I am able to see which foods bother me. Great question by the way!
  • mbailey423
    mbailey423 Posts: 141 Member
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    Right now I'd say a diet, and everything I learn, and all the habits I form I'm hoping will turn into a lifestyle change. I'm only given one chance on this big beautiful blue marble and I'm tired of huffing and puffing away my time on it.
  • 50sFit
    50sFit Posts: 712 Member
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    My journey is pure lifestyle.
    I detest diets and won't do anything just because I am supposed to. I need to want to take certain actions.
    There are some days that prove to be more challenging, but at day's end I know all will be well in that overall, my lifestyle dictates my lasting results.
  • smirf1972
    smirf1972 Posts: 93 Member
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    I don't do diets, I was put on fad diets from 3 months old(apparently I filled the pram) to when I left home(I was 21 then) since then I try not to binge I still fail sometimes but my binges aren't as bad as they used to be(24 bags of crisps in 1 sitting-this was when I was at my mums, i'd bought the crisps and had to hide the evidence)

    Nowadays my way of thinking is different, I allow myself anything in moderation, i'm trying to up my protein, lower my salt, sugar and carbs and hopefully lose a bit in the process.

    Ironically I have never been obese(12 st 8lbs was my heaviest) but my mother is still doing milkshake diets and whilst she does lose it she can never keep it off. I just wish she would listen to us(her 2 kids) but she's convinced:noway: that diet and exercise does NOT work for her :(
  • NYfirefighter
    NYfirefighter Posts: 31
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    For me it's a change of lifestyle
    Back to the old days because since I was medically discharged from the Marines it kinda went downhill from there with PTSD and accompanying depression, stopped doing PT (using injuries as excuse) and started eating
    So now I have to turn that switch over in my head (think I'm at that turning point now) and get back to doing something, setting realistic goals
  • jmello51
    jmello51 Posts: 5 Member
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    I'm on both; when I lose 18 more pounds, then I'll be on life changing maintenance - occasionally allowing for cheating.:flowerforyou:
  • jenilla1
    jenilla1 Posts: 11,118 Member
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    I've been successfully maintaining here for 3 plus years. It's definitely a lifestyle for me. I've never actually "dieted," in the traditional sense. I just don't have that restrictive, temporary mindset that goes along with dieting. I don't have a struggle (dysfunctional relationship) with food that a lot of people have. I mainly just use logging to maintain and make sure I'm getting all my protein, etc.

    A few years ago, I noticed that as I'd aged that I had started to slowly creep up while I wasn't paying attention. I've never technically been overweight, but I was starting to see things moving in the wrong direction. Since logging food and exercise, that hasn't been an issue. Being healthy and fit is just part of my life, not a temporary status. :flowerforyou:
  • didaemad
    didaemad Posts: 1
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    It's probably a lifestyle. I've been using this app since i got my new iphone and I now use it on daily basis. I think checking my calories has become and a habit and helped me develop a sense to know the right proportions without checking the app first !
  • LivingtheLeanDream
    LivingtheLeanDream Posts: 13,345 Member
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    Definately NOT a diet for me...its a change of habit, of practising moderation and moving more and two years in since I joined this site I've never felt or looked better in my life - I've maintained my weight loss for over a year now :)
  • astartig
    astartig Posts: 549 Member
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    to be honest I am here to get the pounds off (for now) and likely intend to going back to how I "used" to do things for the most part. I like my life, I don't see any real need to change it but for health reasons and my own laziness (carrying more weight around is so much more work in so many ways).

    My weight gain was not anything rocket fast. If you average it out it was not even10 lbs a year. My "mistake" was letting years and years and years go by and not taking intermediate steps to keep things in check. It's kind of easier to lose 5-10 lbs than it is 100. Whoops.

    The only thing I intend to change is to set a range that when I get to the top end of I need to watch things a little more closely until it goes back down. I have been essentially doing the same thing this year except my range has to go down even farther before I go through a lax period. (so like lose 10, gain 5, lose 10, gain 5 will eventually get my weight down over time. Eventually it can just be lose 5 gain 5).

    And that's probably a crappy way to go about it, but I really don't care. It's better than being 250 lbs, I'm at least pretty sure of that.


    I spent 20 years of my life doing this. eating with in reason and weighing regularly and when my pants started getting tight going on a diet and getting rid of that 10 pounds rinse and repeat.. it does work for a balance of lifestyle and reasonability. I stopped weighing in a time of stress and then broke my ankle and boom.. way over weight.. I want to get back down to where I was then basically live that lifestyle again. Although I will probably continue to log. it just helps keep it in perspective. I'm small enough and not very active that my calorie allowance is not high. I start gaining where most people would be losing... (Calorie wise)
  • DrogoBoffin
    DrogoBoffin Posts: 3
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    I have a long way to go. I am doing this for the long run. I am not going to go back to killing myself. I have already done too much work to just let that go, and I just started.
  • RaspberryTickleChicken
    RaspberryTickleChicken Posts: 629 Member
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    I see a lot of people on here and they are on this diet or doing this to lose weight. I wonder though. Are you willing to do this for the rest of your life? When you are done with the diet or you hit your weight, will you go back to what you did before? You say no now but.....

    I was one of you, I did atkins and lost 100 pounds and gained back 180 after ending the diet. Bread is good. When I started this time I decided to think about things I can and would like to eat every day for the rest of my life. Sure I will be able to endulge once in a while but it is just that an endulgance. I started running, swimming and biking. I love all of these things and these are going to be the things I do to maintain my soon to be sexy self for the future. I have changed the way I think about food and the way I eat.

    I have to ask the question, Are you here to change your life or get the pounds off (for now)?

    Lifestyle change ... going on 2 years! :drinker:
  • soon2besize2
    soon2besize2 Posts: 2
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    I made up my mind to start my weight loss journey just yesterday after I finally put new batteries in my digital scale. Let's just say I under estimated my weight... I want to make this a lifestyle change.
  • hearthwood
    hearthwood Posts: 794 Member
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    I am just 1/2 pound from goal weight. I lost 25 pounds and have no intention of finding it again. So a life style change for me. No diet, no elimination of food, just portion control.

    Calories in versus calories out simply meaning eat less move more. Works for me!
  • Catter_05
    Catter_05 Posts: 155 Member
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    I tend to shy away from terms like diet, lifestyle change, and weight loss journey...mainly because I have extremely vivid and negative images in my head for each one.

    Diet = 80's aerobics instructor eats rice cakes in a teal & white outfit with matching high top Reeboks.
    Weight Loss Journey = nomads with robes and sticks crossing a mountain/desert area look for a magical weight loss plant.
    Lifestyle Change = 60-ish widow from suburban Texas moves to NYC, starts wearing day glo spandex and becomes a lesbian.

    But in all seriousness, I feel that I changed my life back in 2008 when I hit my all-time highest weight of 307. I made the decision to truly take better care of my body to avoid future problems, to stop eating seriously ANYTHING I want whenever I want just because it tastes good, and to generally strive for health.

    That change I made starting 6 years ago truly did help me a lot. I felt better, looked better, and lost over 40 lb.

    But when I joined MFP in March of 2013 nothing further truly changed for me, EXCEPT counting calories and by doing so, learning a lot more about what I was consuming and its nutritional and caloric content. I've lost 89 lb so far on this site and it's just been kind of like "bonus". it's made it way easier to see results doing what I was already doing anyway.

    I seriously enjoy your posts! What a crack up :laugh:
    I have to do this for health reasons so I'm in for the long haul.
  • pdxwine
    pdxwine Posts: 389 Member
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    For me, it is a lifestyle change.

    My Dr. told me that I had to get my blood pressure in check. She gave me four months to do with via my diet, or I would go on meds.

    At my two month check up, my blood pressure was normal and my weight was down 17 pounds. That was a pleasant side effect. Now, four months later, I am down 34 pounds and will have my check up next week. I know that it will be good.

    So, I will keep this up, as I feel good, I am looking good and I am healthier.
  • sweetcurlz67
    sweetcurlz67 Posts: 1,168 Member
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    it's a lifestyle change. i am now exercising and eating healthy when i was not before. it's not a 'journey' as in my mind some journeys end. it's not a diet as in my mind diets end. it's my new lifestyle.

    great post!

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